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...Lesson One: Getting to Harvard’s boathouse is easy...
...than seven percent in the popular vote. Research done afterwards suggested that significant numbers of people who voted Conservative felt, in the last few days, that Kinnock could not be trusted but had been too ashamed to tell pollsters. The Obama campaign is no doubt aware of this historical lesson...
...Another important lesson on the dangers of polling came in Israel in 1996. Despite initial exit polling suggesting Shimon Peres had been elected Prime Minister, when the actual votes were tallied it was Binyamin Netanyahu who emerged victorious. I spent six tough but fascinating years based in Jerusalem. Reminders of the day when Israel “went to bed with Peres and woke up with Bibi” were often given to caution foreign journalists against placing too much trust in Israeli opinion polls...
...Middle East also provided a third powerful lesson in election reporting: the need to be humble and to resist the temptation to overlay one’s own values on the society being covered...
...that makes a lot of locals uneasy: the chance to rewrite the state's charter by starting up a constitutional convention. Hawaii is one of three states (the others being Illinois and Connecticut) with the issue of rewriting its constitution on the ballot. And it is also the object lesson for all who'd like to do so. Hawaii has convened what locals call "ConCons" twice since 1968, both with far reaching consequences. Now several influential groups are calling for a third. "You have no idea what can happen," says veteran Honolulu journalist Jerry Burris, who covered...